Giulano Ruffini (born 1945) is a French

art collector A private collection is a privately owned collection of works (usually artworks) or valuable items. In a museum or art gallery context, the term signifies that a certain work is not owned by that institution, but is on loan from an individual ...

who has discovered a number of paintings that have been authenticated as being by old masters but some of which are suspected to be forgeries.cached
/ref> Investigation started in 2014. Painter Lino Frongia is suspected as author. Aude Buresi issued two arrest warrants in 2019 calling for the extradition of Frongia and Ruffini from Italy to France, but in 2020 Italian appeals court dismissed all nine of Buresi’s accusations against Frongia. In 2021 Ruffini was under an investigation by Italian fiscal authorities about 2013 - 2017 taxes. In 2022 Ruffini and his son Mathieu Ruffini were justified in Italy on charges of tax evasion.

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Ruffini said that he was lucky enough to find paintings that could have been done by Jan or Pieter Brueghel, Van Dyck, Correggio, Bronzino, Parmigianino, Solario, Van Bassen, Grimmer, Coorte and others. Among involved paintings: *

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. "David Contemplating the Head of Goliath" * Portrait of Cardinal Borgia after Velazquez *

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(school of). "Head of Christ" * El Greco. "San Francesco" * Frans Hals. "Portrait of a Gentleman" (Sotheby's, 2011) *

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. "Venus with a Veil" (Prince of Liechtenstein's collection) *

Parmigianino Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 150324 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (, , ; "the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, B ...

. "Saint Jerome". (Sotheby’s, 2012) * Bronzino. "Saint Cosmos"

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Living people French art collectors French people of Italian descent Art forgers 1945 births {{France-bio-stub

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